The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

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Chester A. Arthur The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Daniel Day-Lewis At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Sherwood Boehlert Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Ron Paul Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Venus Williams It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Joaquin Phoenix With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

Jane Pauley I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it'...

George Orwell We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Gwen Stefani I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

Hugh Miller Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

John F. Kennedy Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Jeanette Winterson The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Bertrand Russell Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Mary Manin Morrissey Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Johnny Depp The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Hugh Jackman With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Louis Kahn Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.